Honestly, this is truly amazing. I will take a quick moment to thank the Julia developers (and all the contributors) for such an awesome language—honestly, if you do any kind of scientific computing (at all) I really and truly recommend trying out Julia. The REPL and development loop are each a little different than the usual Python/R/etc., but it's such a cool language and it's so fast that it will feel like an incredible breath of fresh air. It's amazing to realize that writing down the first thing that comes to your head is usually like 80% as fast as a good, performant implementation. (As someone who has done a decent amount of work in performance engineering for embedded platforms, I really enjoy squeezing out the last drop of performance from most programs, but doing this for every single first-pass at a program, like in Python, is rather annoying if this is what is needed to get a usable implementation.)
Anyways, big props to the developers and contributors, even if this is just a "minor" release. I'm extraordinarily excited for the future of Julia and hope it continues to grow and be as awesome of a community as it is! :)
Anyways, big props to the developers and contributors, even if this is just a "minor" release. I'm extraordinarily excited for the future of Julia and hope it continues to grow and be as awesome of a community as it is! :)